shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com October 3, 2017 • Page 9 SDSU To Host More Than Hugh Hefner Always Had 140 Employers at Ag-Bio Something Memorable To Say Career Fair on Oct. 4 by SDSU iGrow BROOKINGS, S.D. – South Dakota State University will welcome more than 140 employers to its annual fall Ag-Bio Career Fair on Wednesday, October 4. The event is hosted by the SDSU College of Agriculture & Biological Sciences and the Office of Career Development. The fair will take place in the University Student Union from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. A total of 143 employers from 10 different states will represent a multitude of industries, including agronomy, business, dairy, equipment, finance, food, government, horticulture, livestock, manufacturing, medical, natural resources, poultry, swine, precision ag, research and technology. Employers will be recruiting for both internships and full-time positions. Fifty of the companies are registered to conduct interviews with potential candidates the day after the fair. “The Ag-Bio Career Fair is open to all Ag-Bio students. It is a great opportunity for them to connect face-to-face with employers,” said Donald Marshall, interim dean of Agriculture & Biological Sciences. “The career fair gives our students the chance to learn about internship and career opportunities and to make an impression with recruiters.” More than 700 students typically attend the annual event. For the second consecutive year, a mobile app will be used to help students and employers navigate the Ag-Bio Career Fair, which is the largest on-campus fair. “This year we are using Career Fair Plus,” said Matt Tollefson, career coach for the College of Agriculture & Biological Sciences. “The app allows students to view all of the employers at the fair and to filter by industry or major. Students also can add employers to a personalized list of favorites and much more. We will launch the app a few days before the event so that students can use it to preplan their time at the fair.” The app is free to download from either the Apple App Store or Google Play. Premier sponsors for this year’s Ag-Bio Career Fair are: Agropur, Bayer, CHS, DuPont Pioneer, Farmward Cooperative, JBS, Syngenta and Wheat Growers. About the College of Agriculture & Biological Sciences The College of Agriculture & Biological Sciences is one of the eight colleges that make up South Dakota State University. Like the university, the college has a three-fold mission to teach, conduct research, and use extension programs to serve people in South Dakota, the nation, and the world. For more information, visit the College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences webpage. BY NARDINE SAAD © 2017, Los Angeles Times Understanding Playboy-inChief Hugh Hefner’s revered — and reviled — lifestyle was often just a question or two away. The iconoclastic publishing mogul, who died Wednesday at 91, was an open book when it came to his views on swinging ways and sexuality, particularly how his puritanical upbringing shaped his career and gave rise to the revolutionary Playboy empire. Over the years, the perennially pajama-clad Hef was interviewed often by the Los Angeles Times. Here’s a sampling of some of his memorable quotes. • On sexuality’s problematic origins in America: “Our society is fragmented,” he asserted in 1994. “Messages regarding human sexuality have always been mixed in America. We are a schizophrenic nation. We were founded initially by Puritans, who escaped repression only to establish their own. Then the founding fathers gave us the Constitution to separate church and state. But the one thing that got left out of all those laws was human sexuality.” • On the life he made for himself: “Much of my life has been like an adolescent dream of an adult life,” he told The Times in 1992. “If you were still a boy, in almost a Peter Pan kind of way, and could have just Hefner the perfect life that you wanted to have, that’s the life I invented for myself.” • On why he was so happy: “You will find in my bedroom images from long ago, little photographs and things from when I was a kid. I’m a very happy guy, and part of that has to do with my connection to my childhood,” he said in 2009. • On how he became “Hef”: “Through a lifetime, you reinvent who you are,” he explained in 2009. “I actually reinvented myself the first time when I was 16, when a girl rejected me. I started referring to myself as Hef, started changing my wardrobe — the same thing I did in 1959-1960 with the magazine, when I came out from behind the desk and started living the life and got the first Playboy mansion, started to drive a Mercedes 300SL.” • On how the 1942 film “Casablanca” led to the Playboy Club: “I think I opened the first Playboy Club because of ‘Casablanca.’ I wanted to have a place where people came to hang out as they did at Rick’s,” he said in 2010. “It has everything — not only Bogie’s charismatic character, but lost love, redemption, patriotism, humor — it had a great musical score.” • On traditional attitudes toward marriage and sex: “If you don’t commit,” he told The Times in 1994, “you don’t get hurt. I was always unwilling to commit to marriage because I was afraid to lose the romance.” • On the Playboy brand’s global status: “It has been said that the two most famous trademarks in the world are Coca-Cola and the Playboy bunny rabbit,” he said in 1994. “There is certainly no one else in our area that represents the American dream in this particular kind of way. That rabbit means economic freedom, personal freedom and political freedom. That potential is unlimited.” • On the Playboy Jazz Festival: “I’ve never found anything that I’ve cared more about than the music from my youth. I loved the Beatles, sure, but I never became — except for dancing purposes — a hard rocker. To me, there is something incredibly celebratory, and so wonderful about really good big-band swing and Dixieland,” he said in 2002. “When I started, I just wanted to put out a men’s magazine. But by the end of the ‘50s, it was so successful that I seized it as a vehicle for changing the direction of my life,” he added. “And that crucial change in my life was also associated with jazz, because it all began within a space of about six months after the first Playboy Jazz Festival in August of 1959.” • On his personal legacy: “One of the reasons that I have such tremendous satisfaction at this point in my life is because I know I’ve made a difference,” he said in 1994. “I’ve made a difference in a way that really matters to me.” • On publishing’s shift to digital: “I don’t sit around thinking about, ‘Gee, what happened to the new generation and they don’t read enough and why is the internet replacing books?’” he said in 2009. • On his fame and sex appeal: “I think that just as (Henry) Kissinger said, power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Celebrity is the ultimate aphrodisiac in today’s world. And I’m lucky enough to have fallen into a unique kind of celebrity,” he said in 2009. “So against all logic, nothing else matters — age doesn’t matter. When (my last long-term) relationship ended, last year, they were climbing over the gate. ... young women. Endless numbers of young women.” AUCTIONS Grassland Management Do’s and Don’ts Part 1 by Pete Bauman, SDSU Extension Range Field Specialist It's our goal to help grassland managers understand key concepts of grassland management, and thus better prepare the reader to set specific goals and objectives to achieve desired results. Of primary importance is to ask a few key questions: "what is it that I want my grassland to provide?", "what am I willing to invest?" and similarly, "what is the time frame that I expect results?" What do I want my grassland to provide? For starters, we will consider the first question, "What do I want my grassland to provide?" 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Profit potential can also be highly variable and is directly related to initial and ongoing input expenses. 133 ACRES OF ROSEFIELD TOWNSHIP TURNER COUNTY LAND OFFERED IN 3-TRACTS AT AUCTION As we have purchased another property and are completing a 1031 exchange, we will offer the following property for sale at public auction located in the Wieman Auction Facility located 1-mile south a ½ west of Marion, SD on: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19TH • 10:30 A.M. It is our privilege to offer this powerful mostly all tillable tract of land located in the tightly held Rosefield Twp of Turner County. The property will be offered in 3-tracts to allow the land buyer of all sizes a chance to purchase. Property is located just 7-miles away from major grain markets. Farmers or investors come check out this opportunity. TRACT ONE: 115 ACRES LEGAL: S ½ of the NW ¼ except the W 586’ of the S 372’ in the S ½ of the S ½ and the NE ¼ of the SW ¼ all in Section 16, 99-54 Turner County, South Dakota. LOCATION: From Hwy. 44 and Marion corner go 5-miles west ¼ south east side of the road or from junction of Hwy. 81 and 44 go 3-miles east ¼ south east side of the road or near junction of Hwy. 44 and 442nd Ave. •112.62 Acres tillable, 2.08 acres in low spot, balance in RROW. •Soil production rating of 79. Predominant soils Clarno-Crossplain-Davison complex (82) and Worthing and Tetonka silt loams. • Planted to corn for 2017. New buyer able to farm/operate or lease out for the 2018 crop year. Currently Enrolled in ARC-County with the FSA office. •Annual Real Estate Taxes are $2,852.66. Base & Yield Info, wetland maps, and other pertinent info can be found in the buyers packet TRACT TWO: 18-ACRES LEGAL: N ½ of the SW ¼ of the SW ¼ of Section 16, 99-55 Turner County, South Dakota LOCATION: Directly south of Tract One • All tillable tract of land with access from gravel township road 442nd Ave. • Soil production rating of 80.6. Predominant Soil is Clarno-Crossplain-Davison complex • Planted to corn for 2017. New buyer able to farm/operate or lease out for 2018 crop year • Annual Real Estate Taxes are $406.80. Additional information can be found in the buyers packet TRACT THREE: 133-ACRES COMBINATION OF TRACTS 1 & 2 LEGAL: The S ½ of the NW ¼ except the W 586’ of the S 372’ in the S ½ of the S ½ and the NE ¼ of the SW ¼ and the N ½ of the SW ¼ of the SW ¼ all in Section 16, 99-54 Turner County, South Dakota. •Annual Taxes on entire unit are $3,259.50 •Seller will locate the boundary lines by a surveyor if requested by the buyer. TO INSPECT THE PROPERTY: We invite you to inspect the property at your convenience. Video of the property can be viewed on our web site www.wiemanauction.com along with the buyers packet or contact the auctioneers at 800-251-3111 and a buyers packet can be mailed out. TERMS: Cash sale with 15% (non-refundable) down payment auction day with the balance on or before November 7th, 2017. Warranty deed to be granted with the cost of title insurance split 50-50 between buyer and seller. Seller to pay all of the 2017 taxes. New buyer will be responsible for the 2018 taxes payable in 2019. Sold subject to owner’s approval and easements, restrictions, and reservations of record if any. Come prepared to buy. Remember land auction held indoors at the Wieman Auction Facility. KENT & SANDRA SCHMIDT – OWNERS Wieman Land & Auction Co. Inc. Marion, SD • 800-251-3111 www.wiemanauction.com Gary & Rich Wieman Brokers, Turner County Title, Closing Agent, 605-297-5555